Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Sadly, some people never get beyond the box stage in their creative life. We all know people who have announced that they've… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Dance is a tough life (and a tougher way to make a living). Choreography is even more brutal because there is no… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied...… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
